'Calvin and Hobbes' makes just as much sense with Trump as Calvin

I can't be the only one persistently nagged by the feeling that I've encountered Donald Trump in some other, previous form. Maybe a shitty bro I knew in college? Some snobbish hotel concierge? That personal injury lawyer in all those no-budget, late-night commercials?

How could we have failed to it? Trump is obviously the towheaded, bratty, entitled, impulsive, over-imaginative, lazy, and anarchic 6-year-old star of the best newspaper comic strip ever published. Duh.

All in all, this is probably more unfair to Calvin, who is capable of nuanced philosophy and genuine empathy, than to Trump, who has yet to demonstrate either. But it does make us wonder—and worry—what grown-up Calvin might be like.

In 2011, Donald Trump appeared as a guest on a New York-based radio show to talk about how President Barack Obama's high approval numbers with African-Americans could hamper the theoretical presidential bid he was mulling for the 2012 election cycle.